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eight days/six nights, May 8-15, 2010, includes four-night cruise. Highlights: Mykonos/Ephesus, TURKEY/Patmos, Greece, where John wrote Book of Revelation/Byzantine/Turkish and Latin ruins on Rhodes/open-air market and Archaeological Museum on Crete/Santorini. $2,295 from Dallas. Single supp., $330.
Friendly Planet (Jenkintown, PA; 800/555-5765).
14 days/12 nights, June 21-July 4, 2010. Highlights: Berlin’s Pergamon Museum and Charlottenberg Castle plus Spree River day cruise/Prague/medieval Telc˘/Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna Woods/Baroque Salzburg/Melk Abbey/Oberammergau Passion Play/Neuschwanstein Castle/Zürich. Land, $9,495. Single supp., $1,200.
Horizon & Co. (Toronto, Ont., Canada; 800/387-2977).
Eight-day/seven-night tour of FRANCE. Highlights: hike Ile de Port Cros/swim at l’ Estagnol beach/Cap Lardier bird sanctuary for little eagle owls, falcons, hawks/market at Le Lavandou/day cruise on a yacht/Saint-Tropez. Land only, from $2,945. Single supp., from $728.
Breakaway Adventures (Mt. Pleasant, SC; 800/567-6286).
One man’s home… became another man’s castle.
The subject of December’s photo, Stokesay Castle, located near Craven Arms in southern Shropshire, England, is the oldest extant fortified manor house in England. Built by wealthy wool merchant Laurence of Ludlow in the 1280s, the house wasn’t referred to as a “castle” until the 16th century.
From the Mailbag:
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It is one thing to admire a mighty stone lion among the 3,000-year-old Hittite treasures in the Ankara Museum in Turkey and quite another, just hours later, to stand among the Hittite gods and kings themselves!
They are carved at every turn in the impressive cliff sanctuary of Yazılıkaya.
(Part 2 of 3 on Egypt)
The main thrust of my September ’09 Egypt journey was a seven-day/seven-night cruise on the timeless Nile, and the first half of the cruise was upstream, heading south, from Luxor to Aswan.
When Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens opens for the season in the spring of 2010, its ornate gates will swing wide for the 168th time, providing, as from Tivoli’s first days, “a magical place for recreation and fresh air.”
That is how Tivoli’s creator, Georg Carstensen, a publisher of periodicals, described what he had in mind when he approached King Christian VIII to ask for permission to realize his dream. He topped off his proposal by mentioning that “when the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics.”
(Second of two parts)
Tell ITN about the funniest thing that ever happened to you while traveling in a foreign country. (ITN prints no info on destinations in the United States.) There are no restrictions on length. The ITN staff will choose each month’s winner, who will receive a free one-year subscription to ITN. Entries not chosen cannot be acknowledged.
This month’s winner is MERYL EVERETT of Scotts Valley, CA: